Yemen’s Civil War Returns and Overwhelms Hospitals with 'a Very Dangerous Situation'
Hospitals are turning away patients as fighting cuts supply routes and more than 130,000 people flee their homes, aid groups said.
- As Iran-backed Houthis advanced this month, over 130,000 people fled their homes, overwhelming hospitals across Taiz with around 635 casualties, including 112 bodies, as of Thursday.
- Key supply routes between Mokha and Taiz were largely cut off, forcing aid convoys onto mountainous roads unsuitable for large trucks and leaving hospitals critically undersupplied.
- Maternity wards have been converted into emergency rooms in hospitals near the fighting, with many lacking anesthesia, oxygen, and sterile surgical gloves for pregnancy-related emergencies.
- The International Committee of the Red Cross delivered 22 tons of medical supplies last week to support overwhelmed hospitals, yet staff continue performing painful triage as resources remain thin.
- Around 2,000 pregnant women are on the move with over 200 expected to deliver soon, while children like Tarek al-Salami arrive in "acute crisis," underscoring the humanitarian toll.
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Yemen’s civil war returns and overwhelms hospitals with ‘a very dangerous situation’ – WTOP News
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Tarek al-Salami, aged 7, sat in a diaper, looking frail. Normally, the malnutrition and diarrhea that weakened his tiny frame would have been treated within a few days, but nothing is normal in Yemen anymore. Tarek’s father carried him on foot from the southwestern city of Mokha as Iran-backed rebels swept...
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Tarek al-Salami, 7, who was displaced from the city of Mokha and is showing symptoms of malnutrition, sits on a bed while receiving treatment at a therapeutic feeding center in Buraiqa, on the western outskirts of Aden, Yemen, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdulnasser Alseddik)
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Yemen’s civil war returns and overwhelms hospitals with ‘a very dangerous situation’
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Tarek al-Salami, aged 7, sat in a diaper, looking frail. Normally, the malnutrition and diarrhea that weakened his tiny frame would have been treated within a few days, but nothing is normal in Yemen anymore.
A new wave of conflict in Yemen has overwhelmed hospitals from Aden to Marib and Taiz, while the wounded, pregnant women and malnourished children find it increasingly difficult to get treatment.
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